Computer training question

They're all generally book selling scams. Actually, all certification programs are a scam in one form or another. As part of my job I have to be Dell certified, and basically Dell charges my boss $50/year to give me a special ID number I can use to bypass the usual tech support flunkies, and just order replacement parts myself. Apple, HP, Gateway... They all have something similar.

Certifications like A+ and MCSE are just giant book and software selling scams. They impress the technically clueless HR droid types who think the alphabet soup of acronyms means something significant. Go to any book store, and you'll likely find an entire wall devoted to A+ books, and another section just for MCSE books. The web is littered with stories of "paper MCSE's" who may have the certification, but still don't know squat. Which is a shame, because there are probably some really competent people with MCSE certification.

Don't worry so much about the particular certifications you get, because you need some raw skill to be able to actually cut it on a job. If you know your stuff, you shouldn't have a problem getting any certifications later, but certifications won't really teach you anything about what it means to be any kind of computer tech.

They are huge scams, just taking money out of the people (who believe in ruthless theory of if you are certified, you are best). Learn about things, yourself, never buy anything anywhere. Membership fees, healthy books price, annually certificate re-new-ation fee blah blah blah. I am a CCIE And I have only spent 1800$. 1500$ lab fee and 300$ paper fee. I skipped CCNA and CCNP. I read from online freely available books, and take an internship in an ISP company.